Display device for bottles, &amp;c.



M; S. ACHENBACH.

DlSPLAY DEVICE FOR BOTTLES, m.

I APPLICATION FILED AUG. 14. 1914.

1 144,0861. PatentgdJune1915.

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MOORE s. AcnENBAcH, 0F rrr'rsnunen, PENNSYLVANIA.

DISPLAY DEVICE FOR BOTTLES, &C

T0 all'wkom, it may concern Be it known that I, MOORE S. AcHnN- BeCH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pittsburgh, in the county of Allegheny, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Display'Device for Bottles, &c., of which the following is a specification.

- My invention consists of a display device for a bottle or other receptacle or object, the same being composed of a card, plate, or the like, and means thereon for attaching it to an object, and supportingit in position for display purposes.

The invention is satisfactorily illustrated in the accompanying drawing, but the important instrumentalities thereof may be varied, and so it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the specific details shown and described.

'Figures 1 and 2 represent elevations of x opposite sides of a display device embodylng my invention certain parts in Fig. 2 being inthe installing position of the device. Fig. 3 represents a vertical section of the same shown as applied to the neck of a bottle. Fig. 4 represents a rear elevation thereof on a reduced scale, shown as applied to Fig. 5 represents a front elevation Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the figures.

-with, as at 3, whereby said ,flap may be turned on said piece after the manner of a hinge. On said flap are the horizontally extending score lines 4 and 5, dividing the same into the sections 6, 7, and 8, which may be said to be hinged to each other along said lines so as to be placed angularly to each other, as most plainly shownin Fig. 3.

In the sections 6 and 8 are openings 9 and 10, while the section 7 connects the sections 6 and 8 and may be set' in front of the latter as llkewise shown in said Fig. 3. The

portionof the piece 1 below said flap 3, has the recess 11 therein forming a bifurcation,- -the legs. 12 of which are on opposite sides ofsaid flap 3.

Specification of Letters Patent.

. Patented June 22, 119915.

Application filed August 14, 1914. Serial No. 856,709.

In the sides of the section 8 are the slits 13 the walls of whichare adapted to enter the slits or notches 14, on the inner side of the upper portions of the legs 12, thus interlocking said section with said legs, as plainly shown in Fig. 2'.

The normal positions of the parts of the device are shown 1n Fig. 1 when it is fiat for packing and transportation, devices of the character being adapted to be placed one on the other.

When the device is to be used, the flap 2 is raised and its sections are bent into an angular shape. Then the section 8 is interlocked with the legs 12 or adjacent portion of the body of the piece 1, the openings 9 and 10 being one below the other. The flap is then placed in the present case over and upon the neck of a bottle, its sections 6 and 8 encircling and embracing said neck comparatively as a loop at different places, or

in different vertical planes, and so doubly on the bottle and preventing lateral motions, overturning and displacement of the piece, it being noticed that the face of the piece is presented for display and advertising matter, directions, addresses, etc.

The device may be lifted from the bottle,

- and the section 8 disconnected from the legs 12 when the flap may be placed in flat condition with the remainder of the piece for purposes requiring the same, as in Fig. 1;

As additional means for securing thedevice on the neck of a bottle, and steadilysupporting the body in upright position,' I

employ,.the strap 15 which is a downward continuity of the flap 2, its terminal being .reduced in width forming the tongue 16.

Below the hinge portion 3 of said flap at l v thetop of the latter and base of the crown "portion of said body is the slot or recess 17 through which, when said flap is converted into a loop, the tongue 16 is introduced upwardly when it sets-in front of the adjacent portion of the upper partfof'theflbody or piece 1, above said slqt,'s aid strap thus providinga brace whid h assists inigghstaining the flap in its operative position on the bottle or other object to which it is applied.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is v 1. A display device comprising a body portion, a central flap formed of terminal sections and an intermediate section, said sections being bendable with respect to each other to form a support for the body portion and the terminal sections being provided with openings adapted to register and receive a supporting object when the sections arein operative position, and the intermediate section connecting said terminal'sections and holding them spaced apart to retain the device in position on said supporting object and to sustain said body portion upright thereon.

2. A display, device comprising a body portion with depending legs upon the sides thereof and a flap upon said body portion intermediate of said legs in the same plane as said body, said flap being formed of an intermediate and two terminal sections, said sections being bendable with respect to each other to form a support for the body portion and the terminal'sections thereof having openings therein adapted to register and receive an object when the sections are in operative position, and a strap on said flap bendable to engage the body portion to form a brace for the flap in its operative position.

3. A display device comprising a body portion with a recess and legs upon each side thereof and a flap intermediate said legs, said flap embodying terminal and intermediate sections with means for securing said flap to said legs, said sections being bendable with respect to each other to form a sup port for the body portion and the terminal sections of said flap having openings therein adapted to register when the sections are in operative position and to receive an object to which it is applied, said terminal sections being connected by the intermediate section which serves to sustain said terminal sections in position.

4. A display device comprising a body portion with a' recess and legs upon each side thereof and a flap on the body portion within said recess and comprising terminal and intermediate portions, said portions being bendable with respect to each other to form a support for the body portion and the terminalportions having openings adapted to register with each other when the sections ate section connecting said terminal sections and serving to hold the latter spread apart on an object to which the device is applied, and a tongue carried by one terminal section adapted to engage the body portion.

6. A display device comprising a body portion with legs and an intermediate recess, and a flap on the body portion intermediate said legs and formed with bendable sections,

and interlocking means for one of said sections and the adjacent portions of the legs,

one of said sections being formed with a tongue, and the flap adjacent its union with the body portion provided with a recess to 1 receive said tongue.

7. A display device comprising a body portion and a flap movably united therewith, said flap being composed of terminal and intermediate bendable sections, the terminal sections thereofhaving openings and cooperating'means on one of said sections and the body portion for locking the flap in its bent position.

8. A display device comprising a body portion and a flap Inovably .united therewith, said flap composed of terminal and intermediate bendable sections, the terminal sections thereof having openings and cooperating I means on one of sald'sections and the body portion for locking the flap in its bent position,and means on the flap for sustaining the same in operative position on an object to which it is applied.

\ MOORE S. ACHENBACH.

- R. 'J. PFEIFFER. 

